--- title: "Octoparse Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Octoparse. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Octoparse is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/octoparse-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-extraction/) / [Octoparse](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/octoparse-profile/) / Octoparse Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/octoparse-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/octoparse-profile/alternatives/) # Octoparse User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 107 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 85 reviews (79%) - 4 stars: 14 reviews (13%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 3 reviews (3%) ### Most mentioned pros - What I liked most about Octoparse is that it makes web scraping and data extraction approachable without needing to write code from scratch. - I would recommend Octoparse for consultants, analysts, product managers, and small teams that need repeatable web scraping and data extraction without building custom scripts. - It allowed me to gather large amounts of structured data from websites effortlessly, which I then used for analytics and business insights. ### Most mentioned cons - Sometimes there are REST API connection issues. - Occasionally it can take a bit of back & forth with support to get it working on some websites, however I think this is more of an issue with the website layout than Octoparse itself most of the time. - We like the customer support, but since we are based in the USA… responses are not at an ideal time for our team. ## Octoparse customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 107 (page 1). ### Become a data champion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tommy M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Love Octoparse for web scraping and data extraction, really easy tool to use and actually very inexpensive. The UI is easy to navigate and if you run into issues the CS team can look into the issue and provide you with fixes (they told me what code to add and where to fix an issue I was having). You don't even need any developer or coding experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ability to parse virtually any website for data and then quickly export and utilize it was great. The scrapes helped identify leads for targeted outreach, usually the research process takes the longest, but Octoparse made it fast and easy. I actually got more than I was looking for #### Cons Downloading the octoparse client onto my own device for the trial period before upgrading made me hesitant, only because I had never heard of octoparse, but I never experienced any issues. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse Ease of use and ease of deployment + better results --- ### Excellent software for web data extraction - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Juan Carlos R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use Octoparse for academic and research purposes, and in this regard the program has met all expectations. Likewise, many of my students say that the program is easy to use and have adopted it as a key tool in their work as a key tool to increase their productivity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have been using Octoparse for almost 5 years now and I can confidently say that this is the best program for extracting data from the web without writing a single line of code. Plus, it has an intuitive platform and excellent technical support. #### Cons Despite having a very intuitive interface, it requires several hours of trial and error before you can fully master it. There are also opportunities for improvement in the translation of the interface into Spanish. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse Ease of use, great technical support, and affordable price. --- ### Company is in China - Can't Get Good Support - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Jeremy H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Airlines/ Aviation - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Just go with another service that has support hours during the business day. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Pretty good set of features. That's all I can say about it. #### Cons Company is in China. If you need support you can't get it during the business day in the US. So support is you send one email on monday, they email you overnight, you email them tuesday, it is sooooo slow to make any progress on an issue. --- ### Octoparse Data Extraction works! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It has been 5 star. The staff helps and solves issues every time we need them. and we get expert advise when designing our datasets. Best extractor for the money hands down!! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease to test, support is second to none. and I do say that with a background running data services and support with 200 engineers and 150 support staff. #### Cons none that I have run into. the product continues to evolve which is perfect for our needs on a changing basis daily. #### Reasons for switching to Octoparse expense was high for import.io and Octoparse does it all. --- ### Highly recommend Octoparse as scraping tool for individuals and teams - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Etiese J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Octoparse is very efficient and can handle very complex web scraping issues. I think it was made with high-end data scraping solutions in mind. It handles screen scraping, sites with Javascript, Ajax, scrolling, items within Iframe, etc., and 'get' requests API scraping. I have been using it since 2019, and it is highly recommended. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its ability to handle highly complex tasks compared to other tools in the market. The fast response from their support, ease of use, and most importantly, its try-except setup for everything ensures one error does not terminate the whole scraping. #### Cons I wish there were an option to clear data in Scraper before starting a new extraction on scheduled extraction. It would be very useful in parent-child configuration. #### Reasons for switching to Octoparse Octoparse was easier and cheaper for a beginner when I started. the free version allowed up to 10 scrapers and 10k rows of data which means a lot for a beginner testing out --- ### My Octoparse Experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Deniz C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am using it almost evry day, and I am happy with the maintenance. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros -Quick turnaround when I need assistance for a specific task. -Uninterrupted service. #### Cons 1- I would prefer to use input file (csv) as a list in a loop - currently you can only import url list 2- I would prefer use the input file as a local path; so Octoparse would import it automaticall every time I run the task. Currently, I have to import the file manually everytime. It is not feasible. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse Value for money, ease of use, ease of setup. #### Reasons for switching to Octoparse Product discontinued and the alternative was not feasible for me. --- ### Octoparse - a requirement for any business! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Chris S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Really seamless, support are quick and helpful, and it's very easy to learn yourself. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Octoparse has been an absolute game changer for us as a company. Being able to quickly and easily build tools to web scrape is revolutionary for us as a business. #### Cons Occasionally it can take a bit of back & forth with support to get it working on some websites, however I think this is more of an issue with the website layout than Octoparse itself most of the time. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse Ease of use and flexibility as well as working on Mac. --- ### Octoparse Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anne G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's a more accessible way to scrape data and it's easy to use, even for beginners. The team is also responsive to my concerns. #### Cons I'm still navigating through the tool and so far, I wish there are some features such as an "undo" button. #### Reasons for switching to Octoparse problem with blacklisted sources and automation --- ### OctoParse Works - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ron P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience has been good. I've been able to use the tool to scrape the sites I needed. Support has been very good as well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros When configured properly, it works. So far, I've not come across a site I could not parse with OctoParse. #### Cons It's can be extremely difficult to configure correctly. This may just be the nature of the beast, but for some sites it's definitely a task to get the right configuration set up. #### Reasons for switching to Octoparse Text scrapes are too expensive with BrowseAI. --- ### Best Data scraping within minutes! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Veenadharini S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Superb experience! Would recommend 10/10 for massive data scrapping tools. The people at Octoparse are also extremely helpful and accommodating! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The absolute ease of data scrapping. How each and every thing was easily scrapped with just identity the fields by clicking them. I loved how fast my work got done with a simple click. #### Cons Nothing in particular. Everything was great. Maybe the prices could be a little more affordable but then it's a great tool so ofcourse it's a little expensive. --- ### Powerful and easy - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Akos K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Cosmetics - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Great tool with ease of use and helpful support! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, powerful, great customer support! #### Cons Sometimes there are REST API connection issues. --- ### Longterm Octoparse Customer - Fan for Life - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. No complaints what so ever. I have had a subscription for 6 years. That says a lot. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I appreciate how easy the application is to get basic scraping, but the standout is the support staff. They will help you or even just fix it themselves. I recently had a job need changes. I was out of the country and did not have a reliable internet connection. A quick email to support and less than a day later, I was back getting data. #### Cons Octoparse includes many default templates, but they are "black boxes". I would really like to be able to open them and see how they are working. It would to better understand how to make my own scripts work better. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse it was the bestttttttttttttttttttttttttt --- ### I wish I had discovered this jewel years ago... - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: F. S. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been crawling and parsing websites for a while, with use of php and cUrl. Years after years, it sounded clear that my extracting routines running on my server were more and more difficult to maintain in a good working shape. In fact, websites regularly change minor things on their pages, and in the best case, you wouldn't get anymore some or all of the awaited data, in the worse case, absolutely inaccurate data. Then came for me (and I must admit, my limited skills) THE hammer : AJAX ! Yes, html + Javascipt + css + dom... and the dynamic pages that don't load at first sight, that wait for you to click on a button, that just show as you scroll down, that exchange static pictures urls with javascipt dynamically shown pictures.. In two word : a nightmare ! So, I had to find a way to still be able to extract my needed data, without having to pass an engineer degree in information technology... had to be fast, had to be robust ! I gave a try to some scraping tools, and my final choice was made to Octoparse. Several reasons for it : easy to set up lots of tutorials to start easily Ajax is handled as easy as a basic html url... as if it wouldn't be any ajax routines on the pages. It's really what make me give a try... because I was unable to access the most important part of the data I needed... hidden behind an 'Display' Ajax button that I wasn't able to deal with (with php / cUrl) 10 tasks are offered for free, and as far I know, won't be public tasks as it's the case with some of Octoparse competitors Smart Mode and Wizard mode make it easy to find the data, often at first sight. Sometimes you need to find alternate ones... but Octoparse tries to do it for you. But of course, the Advanced Mode is the most important part ... and you don't need to start with it : Start with smart, or with wizard, and then Edit in Advanced Mode... and extract with accuracy what you need. I've been using kind of Xpath for years with php... but here, its easy and clear. You can even save a data extraction configuration files, to be used in new project, or elsewhere. The only drawback I have noticed, is that Octoparse uses mostly children/children/children xpath ways, that seems, to me, less robust than locations with specific attributes like class, id, or others, when Wizard Mode is used. But you can make it more robust and edit it in the advanced mode. It should definitively help me to gain a lot of time... and money (as far as I'm able to set up the APIs #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Barely, you can start to use it easily without never having heard about xPath #### Cons Not one single API link in free mode, not one possibility to upload a single - even limited - task in the cloud, to test the speed difference with local extraction... --- ### I feel all public data is mine because i have octoparse - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: ISTIYAQUE B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Outsourcing/ Offshoring - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered everything is ok but price. monthly price 20/30$ would be beneficial. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros within few second i can start scraping and speed very high. #### Cons the price is very high as i am a bangladeshi. --- ### Great no code scrapping & automation service - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stephen H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great tool, especially for someone with a no/ low code background. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use. Great customer service team. Very helpful. Scrapers can be adjusted / corrected quickly when they do break. #### Cons They are continually iterating and improving. Additional opportunities include ability to manipulate scraped data by improving the IF / THEN / ELSE functionality. #### Reasons for choosing Octoparse Initial trial convinced me. Bright Data quote was higher. --- ### Outstanding data extraction tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I remain impressed every time I use it... and that's been 4 years now. The uptime and customer support have been excellent too. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This is truly a low code required tool and if things get complicated, the support is there to guide you through what's needed to be successful. #### Cons Hmmm. While I have not used all of the features, I imagine that someday Octoparse will recognize when the extracted data isn't quite right ... and just fix it automatically. --- ### Octoparse ! Great Product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Howard H. - Industry: Research - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered After searching and searching for a data-service. I couldn't quite fine one that would meet my needs. Then came Octoparse. At first I was hesitant to use. However after watching several tutorials. I could tell the Octoparse team spent alot of time making it easy to use. Octoparse is an extremely powerful tool that has optimized and pushed our data scraping efforts to the next level. I would recommend this service to anyone. The price for the value provides a large return on the investment. For the free version, which works great, you can run at least 10 tasks at a time. However, these tasks are ran simultaneously in the background of the computer application. In my opinion buying any of the plans that allow you to use the cloud interface is very helpful and provides a good bit of flexibity. You can close out of the application and know that Octoparse is running on a server somewhere. My favorite feature is the multi-export options that are provided (csv, microsoft excel old & new, TXT, html). Octoparse doesn't require you to have any knowledge of coding which is helpful. However, knowing simple x-code shortcuts makes Octoparse even more powerful because you can create your own custom script that will run based on your need. The walkthrough tutorials when you first start I think is what really changes the game for Octoparse. Every once in a while. I have issues with Octoparse shutting down or troubles exporting. However, Octoparse support is super quick and reliable. The bill payment is very trustworthy as well. Octoparse also offers proxy capabilities, and the ability to turn off images to speed up the process. Another addition in the cloud settings is the ability to denote and categorize tasks based on its status. I know this may seem like a no-brainer feature. However it is super helpful to know the status or time of when multiple tasks will be completed so I can plan the extraction. I have heard great things about the API capabilities, however I haven't had time to figure it out. Next on my list. All in all Octoparse offers a wide range of features and I'm happy to have used it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The amazing and never-ending features #### Cons Cost --- ### Best free scraper softare - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Adriano S. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We are using Octoparse to scrape pages, and we find it extremely powerful. The free tool is good for users that don't need to use many queriesm, and don't need more than 2000 results extracted. After that limit either you can buy the upgrades, or you can split the files. The wizard is simple, the advanced is rather difficult to use, if you are not a developer. We would love to use some of the advanced functionalities, if they could be 'moved' to the simple side (considering that the scraper is intended mostly for nondevelopers). The wizard mode gives you the possibility to choose between: 1. list or table extraction 2. list and detail extraction 3. URL list extraction 4. single page extraction Depending on your needs, it could be good to extract all the fields from a single page (point 4) or extract data in the form of a table (page 1). We mainly use list and detail extraction, where you just need to provide a result page of a query on a first step, in and define the list of similar URLs you need to extract. Octoparse will detect the list automatically just after your second selection. On the next step you would need to instruct Octoparse on the fields you wish to extract. For each field, you can decide to extract the text, the inner HTML, the outer HTML, or the links behind the text (for example email addresses or internet addresses). We find this functionality extremely good. In the simple mode (free) the speed is based on your computer and on your internet speed. If you don't need to extract more than 2000 pages per time, the free version is good enough. If instead, you upgrade to the most advanced plans, you can use the speed of multiple servers CPU and run many tasks at the same time. If the list and extraction are not providing results, because it is difficult for Octopars to find out the URLs on a result page, we do use the URL list extraction. With this functionality you simply provide the crawler with a list of similar URL you need to crawl and the rest will be done automatically. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Free Easy to use #### Cons Advanced features a bit complicated --- ### Octoparse as the most friendly and intuitive web data extraction tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hayk A. - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have tried about 20 web data extraction software incl. online ones and desktop apps. I have stopped at Octoparse as for me it appeared to be the best option because: 1. it offers a "linear" (in the good sense) and convergent workflow for a job versus the rather messy and distractingly branching/forking semantics of the process of other software where after a certain point you lose the touch/control because of steeply growing complexity along the steps of the workflow (this problem with other software is even more severe when the workflow steps are named in quite an arbitrary manner by the vendor leaving you without any clues as to what the given step is about or how you are supposed to carry it out, etc.); 2. its workflow is simple/straightforward, friendly and intuitive - with Octoparse you do not need hours or days of training/reading of instructions, tutorials, etc. as is the case with the other software I have tried/tried to go through; the process is highly structured and coherent in Octoparse; 3. it does not require any specialized/professional skills of any kind of coding. As a possible drawback I would point to the relatively weak consistency among the offerred 4 modes of extraction. I have noticed that there are a few inconsistencies in step logic mapping/matching across some of them, but I have not explored all of them to be honest, so this problem may in fact be less significant. Thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - it is simple, friendly, intuitive and features a linear/convergent (in the good sense) process of interaction - it does not take even hours of training/reading the instructions, tutorials - you start using it straight away - it does not require any coding skills #### Cons - relatively weak consistency in the logics of workflow steps across/among the four modes of extraction --- ### Easy to use tool! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Humayun A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Import and Export - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. [sensitive content hidden] has always been great for supporting us with any issues we may face. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Intuitive and easy to navigate with fantastic support service. #### Cons A little expensive but perhaps worth the investment. --- ### Octoparse is really a good data extraction tool. It helps me a lot for my academic research. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Yue S. - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like Octoparse Cloud Service most. I need to update the data every day and the cloud service enables me to schedule the crawlers run daily on Octoparse cloud servers automatically without having to keep my computer on. This really save me a lot of time and help me get a lot of original data online for my academic research. Besides, I do appreciate they offer great discounts for us students. It is really helpful to me. #### Cons Sometimes the support replied a little late. It would be better if they could reply a little earlier. --- ### A bit clunky, but the best tool for the money - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eric S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Can be frustrating to use, but is otherwise a very feature-rich, robust tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very robust builder. You can do a lot with their tool and have almost limitless options for building. Their support is slow but very helpful. #### Cons Their support seems to be on an Asian time zone, so responses can be 12-24 hours. That is frustrating, but they are otherwise very helpful. The interface is also cumbersome. --- ### call costumer - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros this software is good result and fastest #### Cons its very good software user friendly nice --- ### Great Data Extraction Tool! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alle Z. - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Comparing to other popular extractors, the price is very worthy, and its functions work very well, fulfill my needs with a lower price. #### Cons Though it doesnt need to code, but it requires a series of tutorials before I got started. It's a good thing it didn't take so long. --- ### Web Scraping - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Renaldo S. - Industry: Program Development - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Octoparse is the best software for web data extraction software.It is fast and get data from all the pages without putting a single pieces of code, just design your workflow and all the data will be exported in excel or you can integrate with a database. It a software that is extremely easy to use and navigate,once you start using it , you will feel that is very important for your business and your ordinary job. For me this software was a solution for my problems , and now i don't get the data i want manually but i have octaparse, and i am very happy i got it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Performance,easy to use,get data from all websites ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/octoparse-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Octoparse Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice